Combination package



Dec. 13, 1932. R. L. HARDEN COMBINATION PACKAGE Filed Jan. 20. 1930 fw Wn R:

INVEN Assnc! y Patented Dec. 13, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE iRALPI-I L. HARDEN, OF NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASS ACHUSETT S, ASSIGNOR T0 TI-IE MASON BOX COMPANY, OF ATTLEBORO FALLS, MASSAGHUSETTS, A CORPORATIONOE MASSACHUSETTS COMBINATION PACKAGE Application filed January 20, 1930.Serial No. 421,952.l

The invention relates to the combining of different and preferablyunrelated articles or products in one package for' merchandising.

The general object of the invention is to provide a combination packageof the above Character in a compact form best adapted for merchandising;to provide a package in which the boxing structure is relatively simpleand inexpensive, and especially to provide a. package attractive inappearance fitted with a display top.

I have found that the objects of the invention may be attained if a bookbe employed as one of the packaged articles inasmuch as a book may be socombined with the other article in the one package, as will later beexplained, as to obtain an ideal form for merchandising; one in whichthe boxing of the book adds but little to the cost of the package and infact effects economy in the relative cost of the package having as itdoes a display top, inasmuch as the cover of the book itself forms thistop.

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to thedrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal Vertical section of thepackage, and

Fig. 2 is a Vertical cross section of the package.

Referring to the drawingz- The combination package as shown inFig. 1,rectangular in form, comprises a bottom 1, side and end walls 2, 2; 8,3, respectively, and a top 4. The bottom, side and end walls are ofcardboard or similar material. The top 4 is the front cover of acontained book 5. This book is so arranged within the enveloping sideand end walls 2, 2; 3. 3, of the package that the front cover of thebook or the paper jacket thereon forms the top of the package. In asmuchas the outer cover of the book or jacket thereon as aforesaid is ofattractive appearance and usually embellished, it has, when combinedwith the side and end walls of the package as aforesaid, the effect ofimparting a display top to the package in almost perfect simulation of adisplay cover.

Provision is made for supporting the book and for boxing another articleor commodity such as candy inside the package in the following manner:The bottom l of the package forms the bottom of a contained or inside'box body having side and end walls 6, 6; 7 7 respectively,.these wallscooperating with the bottom to form an ordinary paper or cardboard box.F itting upon this inside box body 1s a slip'cover comprising a top 8with depending side and end walls 9, 9; 10, 10,'respectively. This coverslips over the body of the box in the usual manner of a slip cover andthe top 8` of the cover when fitting on: the box body forms the supporton which the bookirests.

Provision having thus been made forisupporting the book and boxing theassociated article, the package is completed by the application to thevinside box of a rectangular collar made up of the walls 2, 2; 3, 3,respectively which form, as before described, the side and endV walls ofthe completed package. This collar when applied to the inside box restsalong its bottom edge againstthe bottom 1 of the box, which bottom formsalso 'the bottom of'the completed package The upward extension of thecollar when bearing,r along its bottom edge againstthe bottom 1 issuch/that it will rise above the top 8 of "fthe box cover,` on which thebook is resting,

a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the book so that thefront cover of the back or jacket thereon will lie about fiush with thetop edge of the collar and thereby cooperate with the collar, forming asit does the side and end walls of the package, to form the finished topof the package. In order that-this effect may be pro'perly attained, thelength and width of the inside box should be subst-antially equal to thelength and width of the book supported by it, and the height of theenveloping collar should be substantially equal to the thickness of thecombined inside box and. book. If desired the collar may be fastened, asby gluing, to the side and end walls of the cover of the inside box.

The package thus formed is a very simple and economic one consisting,apart from the contained articles, only of the inslde box ho'using oneof the articles, and the enveloping collar. Inasmuch as the inside box1s concealed in the complete package, thls box may be a plain box. What'might otherwise materially add to the expense of a' package of this kindhaving a display top is entirely obviated in the construction above'out- 5 lined, for the reason that the cover of the contained book, oraoket thereon, forms the display top, and the housing of the book andformation of the complete package is effected only by the 'addition ofthe collar. 10 By the term 'oovei' as ued herein and in the appendedclaims is meant a cover with o'r without a paper jacket.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Pat- 1 ent of the United States 1. In a combinationpaokagefor 'achieving a certain display effect, a rectangular box provided Witha bottom,-sideand end Walls, `a rectangular slip cover for and restingon '30 the box and comprising side and end Walls having a medialhorizontal partition forming two compartments, the Walls of one of thecompartments extending adjacent or close 'to the botto'm edge of theboxand so con- 2 structed as to maintain the box in its properassociatedposition, and a rectangular article filling the topcompartment of the slip coverand constituting a display top.

o 2.V A combinationpackage for obtaining a body'having a bottom Withupturned `sides and ends, and forming within a compartment, arectangular slip cover for said body having a medial horizontalfpartition with side and end Walls extending downwardlyito substantiallyconceal said box and having its parts arranged to rest on the box` andlimit the relative movement toward each other, and further having saidwalls extending upward- 40 ly to form in Cooperation With saidpartitiona top compartment, and a book filling said top compartment, said bookhaving a display cover constituting the display top of Vsaid combinationpackage.

RALPH L. HRDEN.

